"Aurélia Lassaque's wonderfully spare and potent stanzas prove to be the perfect form for a feminist imagining of an eternal moment stretching from before the time of The Odyssey into the future, into infinity. Like Emily Wilson's recent translation of Homer's great epic, the poems of In Search of a Face create space for a woman, for a woman's experiences of love and of longing, thereby creating space in ancient history and myth for all women. Here, through the voice of this unnamed woman ('She'), the voice of Ulysses, and a choral voice, we learn truths about the intimate, human costs of war. As dramatic as it is poetic, In Search of a Face is a necessary book for our present historical moment." –Gail Wronsky
"She writes in two languages, but speaks with one voice, so much so that her poetry is meant to be said, sung and danced. Aurélia Lassaque, is a young woman whose day of writing began thousands of years ago. In Mexico, Brazil, in the vast Amerindian world, Aurélia Lassaque would be something of a shaman; her readers would read her as they gather wild plants to heal themselves or keep away from curses. As a woman faithful to the happy rumors of her childhood, Lassaque invites us to pagan festivals, primitive rounds, rural phantasmagorias where two stories are always intertwined, one ancient, the other contemporary."–Bruno Doucey
